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I LOVE BOOSTERS MOVIE REVIEW Writer/Director Boots Riley made his bizarre debut in 2018 with the enormously popular Sorry to Bother You. There’s been much anticipation for his second film I Love Boosters and for...

NORMAL MOVIE REVIEW A decade ago if you told me that Bob Odenkirk was going to have a rebirth as a brutal action movies star, I would have assumed you were talking about a Mr. Show sketch that I must have forgotten...

HOKUM MOVIE REVIEW While Irish director Damian McCarthy is a big name in the serious horror fan community, especially after two fantastic films Caveat (2020) and Oddity (2024), his latest film Hokum that premiered at...

OVER YOUR DEAD BODY MOVIE REVIEW If you never got to see the 2021 Norwegian film The Trip, you missed out on a crazy, bloody, constantly surprising good time of an action, horror, comedy film. While you can still find...

PRETTY LETHAL MOVIE REVIEW A troupe of ballerinas who are having trouble working together effectively somehow still get invited to a prestigious competition in Hungary. When their bus breaks down in the middle of...

READY OR NOT 2: HERE I COME MOVIE REVIEW This sequel to the successful 2019 horror comedy begins exactly where the first one ended: Grace (Samara Weaving) having a smoke after having completely smoked her new in-laws...

WATCHER MOVIE REVIEW Maika Monroe plays Julia, an American woman married to Francis (Karl Glusman) and they’ve just moved to Bucharest together. He speaks the language and understands the culture and she does not...

THE CELLAR MOVIE REVIEW Ancient mansions in Ireland I suspect hold all kind of secrets as a general rule. That being said, usually you can’t just completely disappear in them and get caught in an alternate hell...

THE BLIND MAN WHO DID NOT WANT TO SEE TITANIC MOVIE REVIEW This little film with a big title hails from Finland and the story behind the story is as moving and heartbreaking as the film itself. Star Petri Poikolainen...

X MOVIE REVIEW There’s no question that horror director Ti West (The Sacrament) wants you to think of the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre when you see his new film X. It’s the same period of time with a...

CHA CHA REAL SMOOTH MOVIE REVIEW Writer/Director Cooper Raiff (Shithouse) also takes the lead in his new film Cha Cha Real Smooth. He plays Andrew, a fresh out of college 20-something, looking for what comes next...

SLASH/BACK MOVIE REVIEW In a small town on the border of the arctic circle, a group of teen Inuit girls discovers the presence of an alien…thing. It’s been possessing the local wildlife and draining the...

BODIES BODIES BODIES MOVIE REVIEW Sophie (Amandla Stenberg) and Bee (Maria Bakalova) are in a new relationship and it’s going at a whirlwind pace. Nonetheless, anyone who has ever been thrown into a whole new...

MASTER MOVIE REVIEW A prestigious and very old New England college has a new arrival, one of the few black students at the school, Jasmine (Zoe Renee). Right off the bat, she’s uncomfortable as she sees the...

HYPOCHONDRIAC MOVIE REVIEW Will (Zach Villa) did not have a great childhood. His mother was schizophrenic and her ‘moments’ sometimes even went past conspiratorial rantings and into violence against Will and...